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páidín wrote:For further information on where I got those weird words (i.e. voiceless labiodental fricative), see here.
I figured you were channeling Oisín!
Redwolf
Actually, I'm fascinated with linguistics (to the point of minoring in university) and really like IPA. It helps explain things so much more easily. If only we had decided to use that on that one thread a while ago.
About Oisín, "I wanna be like him when I grow up."
ALWAYS get a second opinion on anything I, or anyone else, attempt to translate or transliterate. I speak Connacht Irish, so some things I write, translate, or transliterate may be non-standard.
That may be a tad bit confusing, but it just means that "fh" is silent because of the impossibility of sound. For further information on where I got those weird words (i.e. voiceless labiodental fricative), see here.
I was wondering about that!
Do I detect sarcasm?
Heheheh - no, not really. You actually blew my socks off with all that neat terminology. I thought, "geez good looking and brainy"!
Peggi
Well behaved women seldom make history Os mae rhywbeth ar y ffordd, cerwch o'i gwmpas. Ymweldwch â fy mlog
December 21 2004, 2:22 AM
páidín
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Peggi wrote:
páidín wrote:
Peggi wrote:
páidín wrote:...snip.....
That may be a tad bit confusing, but it just means that "fh" is silent because of the impossibility of sound. For further information on where I got those weird words (i.e. voiceless labiodental fricative), see here.
I was wondering about that!
Do I detect sarcasm?
Heheheh - no, not really. You actually blew my socks off with all that neat terminology. I thought, "geez good looking and brainy"!
ALWAYS get a second opinion on anything I, or anyone else, attempt to translate or transliterate. I speak Connacht Irish, so some things I write, translate, or transliterate may be non-standard.